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Index and Reference Sheet 

Tlie Vaiulerbilt Hotel 3 

New York as a Sunniier Resort 4 

The Physical New York (i 

A Trip lip Broadway 8 

Fifth Aveiuie from the Top of a Motor Bus 13 

Churches on Fifth Avenue IG 

Theatres, Roof Gardens and Other Amusements 17 

Coney Island 17 

Prospect Park 18 

Ivong Beach 18 

Baseball Games 19 

Polo 19 

Racing 20 

Golf 21 

Tennis 21 

Smart Shops 22 

Restaurants in and about "The Great White Way" 23 

Out-of-Door Restaurants 23 

Chop Houses 24 

Motor Trips 25 

Turkish Baths and Hair-dressing Establishments 2(5 

Garages 27 

Bronx Park 28 

The Motor Parkway 28 

The Museums 28 




Statue of Liberty 
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The Vanderbilt — Palm Garden and Tea Room. 



T HE VANDERBILT HOTEL stands at Park 
Avenue and 34th Street, the southern point 
of the most aristocratic residential district of 
New York. 

Also, situated as it is, in what we might call 
the railway terminal zone, it is really the heart of 
the Greater City and enjoys, from its location, 
advantages that no other hotel in town possesses, 
in its easy access to theatres, clubs, shops and 
departmental stores. 

A subway entrance is at its door. 

The Grand Central and Pennsylvania Railway 
terminals can each be reached by six minutes' walk, 
or by "taxi" for forty cents, or by direct line on 
the surface cars for five cents. 

In its appointments and in its cuisine, the 
Vanderbilt Hotel has no superior, and its Delia 
Robbia Restaurant, named after the great sculptor 
of the fifteenth century, whose beautiful terra- 
cotta reliefs suggested the room, is now justly 
famous. Its lunches, its dinners and its Sunday 
evening dinner concerts draw together a crowd of 
patrons daily and weekly whom it is a pleasure to 
know, even by sight. 

The Vanderbilt Hotel is only one, however, of 
the many attractions that New York City has to 
offer its visitors in the Summer time. 



New York City as a Summer Resort 
It is because New York City offers so many dif- 



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vacation period 
presentment, in 
proof of the 
fact that New 
York City is by 
far the best 
Summer resort 
in America. A 
few days spent 
here during 
the Summer 
m o nt h s will 
prove both in- 
teresting and 
instructive. 
It is rarely 
the upper floors 
A great many 



too hot for comfort and never on 

of an hotel like the Vanderbilt. 

of the theatres are open during the Summer months 

and innumerable roof gardens show where one 

may, in the cool of the evening, enjoy the best 

entertainment. 

Many delightful, little day journeys may be 
undertaken with ease and comfort. Sight-seeing 
yachts make regular trips around the rivers and 
harbor; the 
Day Line 
steamer, 
"Hendrik 
Hudson , " 
may be 
taken for a 
few hours' 
trip to West 
Point; other 
steamers, 
with excel- 
lent service, ^ ^ ■ a^ ^• 

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make trips 

to the different beaches and islands. From any of 
these trips, one may return in time for dinner and 
the theatre. 

The war has kept a great many people in town, 
who, in one way or another, are "doing their bit." 
They are habitues of such comfortable gathering 
places during the luncheon, dinner and afternoon 
tea hours as the Far East Garden at the Vanderbilt, 
the Japanese Garden at the Ritz-Carlton, Sherry's 
and the Plaza. There is always delightful music 
at these places. 

Any of the nearby seashore resorts — Coney 
Island, Manhattan or Brighton Beach, Long Beach, 
Rockaway or the New Jersey Coast resorts, may 





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be reached in an 
hour by rail or 
boat. The cost is 
very moderate. 

If you are a 
lover of golf, be 
sure and bring 
your golf sticks 
with you, for the 
privileges of the 
Queensboro' Golf 
Club, with its 
e i g h t e e n-h o 1 e 
course — one of the finest in the East — are ex- 
tended to the guests of the Vanderbilt Hotel and 
the links are most accessible. A short motor ride 
and an afternoon at the Club, with its ideal sur- 
roundings, will help to make one's stay an enjoy- 
able one and keep one "fit." 
A day spent in lower 
Broadway, in the finan- 
cial center, will repay one, 
embracing, as it does, 
many points of interest. 
The curb market, where 
all stock trades are made 
in the open, the galleries 
of the New York Stock 
Exchange; the Sub-Treas- 
ury and the Assay Office 
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open to visitors, 
welcome. On the 
the Sub-Treasury 
statue of George 
Washington, which marks 
the spot where Washing- 
ton took the oath as the first President of the 
United States. Trinity Church and Wall St.; the 
Custom House and Bowling Green; the Equitable 
Building, at Broadway and Pine St.; the offices 
of J. P. Morgan & Co.; the National City Bank; 
"Fraunces' Tavern," where Washington took leave 
of his officers at 
the end of the 
Bevolutionary 
War, are well 
worth one's time. 
From Battery 
Park, trips may 
be taken to Ellis 
Island, the immi- 
grant station be- 
fore the war; Gov- 
ernor's Island, 
th e headquarters 
of the military 




Faunces' Tavern 




St. Paul's Church 



Department of the East, 
and Bedloe's Island, where 
stands the Statue of 
Liberty, given to America 
b y popular subscription 
in France in 1883. The 
pedestal was built by pop- 
ular subscription in the 
United States, mainly 
through the efforts of the 
N. Y. World. 

The lower East Side, 
"The Ghetto," is a foreign 
quarter and an interest- 
ing place to visit. So is 
Chinatown, also Green- 
wich Village, the nearest 

approach in this country to what we know as the 

Bohemian life of Paris. 

The trip up Fifth Avenue, in a motor bus, and 

through Riverside Drive to Grant's Tomb and 

"Claremont," is most interesting. The Fifth 

Avenue route is from Washington Square north 

to 57th Street, 

past the Vander- 

biltpalaces,then 

west, up Broad- 
way and through 

72nd Street to 

Riverside Drive, 

up Riverside 

Drive to General 

Grant's Tomb, 

at 123rd Street 

and over the 

Esplanade to 

145th Street. 

But let us take up some of these places more in 

detail for the best interest of our visitors. 

The Physical New York 

New York City consists of five Boroughs — 
Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Rich- 
mond, all united under one municipality in 1898. 
Without offending anybody, we can say that 
Manhattan Borough is the most important and 
the heart of the Greater City of New York. 

"Manhattan" is* a name that the Indians gave 
us, from whom, it is said, the entire island was 
bought by the early Dutch settlers for a few strings 
of beads and trinkets, valued at as little as $24.00. 
They, in turn, (the Dutch) called the island 
"Nieu Amsterdam." 

In our day, a comparatively small portion of 
this same land, in some localities, is assessed at 




Sub-Treasury 




The Aquarium, Battery Park 



millions of dol- 
lars. 

In 1664, the 
Duke of York 
took title to 
the colony for 
England and 
renamedit"New 
York." 

The arrange- 
ment o f the 
streets is gener- 
ally rectangular. North of Houston Street, which is 
about a half mile south of Union Square, the streets 
running east and west are from First to Two 
Hundred and Twentieth Street and to Two Hun- 
dred and Sixty-second Street, near the Yonkers 

line. The houses are 
numbered east and west 
from Fifth Avenue and 
the numbers are dupli- 
cated on either side. In- 
tersecting avenues run 
north and south, from 
First Avenue to Thir- 
teenth Avenue. Lexing- 
ton Avenue is between 
Third and Fourth Ave- 
nues, north of Twenty- 
first Street. North of 
Fifty-ninth Street, Ninth 
Avenue becomes Colum- 
bus Avenue, Tenth 
Avenue becomes Am- 
sterdam Avenue and 
Eleventh Avenue becomes West End Avenue 
as far as 106th Street, where it ends at Broad- 
way. Broadway begins at Battery Place (Bat- 
tery Park) and runs the entire length of Manhattan 
Borough, ending at the Harlem River; crossing 
the Spuyten Duyvil Creek into the Borough of 
the Bronx it runs north and northeast to the 
city line at Yonkers. The Bowery extends from 
East Fourth Street 
south to Chatham 
Square, with a 
labyrinth of cross 
streets, more densely 
populated with their 
teeming tenements 
than any city in the 
w or 1 d , excepting 
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A Trip up Broadway 

To know Broadway is to know New York, for 
Broadway, running transversely, as it does, across 

the city, touches every 
artery of the City's Hfe. 
Let us start from Bowl- 
ing Green, the extreme 
lower end of the Island 
of Manhattan, and 
spend first a delightful 
hour at the Aquarium, 
one of the best-appointed 
places of its kind in the 
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Naples and Bermuda, 
The Aquarium was for- 
merly known for years 
as Castle Garden and 
here it was, in 1850, that 
Jenny Lind, the great 
Equitable Building Swedish singer, gave 

her memorable concerts. 
At the corner of the first 
street (Morris) , we notice 
the old Stevens House, — 
a landmark of the city 
and at one time the City's 
most fashionable hotel. 
Here was celebrated the 
marriage of the daughter 
of Daniel Webster, the 
most notable social event 
of that time and here later 
many public receptions 
were given to distin- 
guished foreigners. The 
property has just been 
bought by "The Cunard 
Line," who propose to 
erect on this site a large 
office building to house them, in their great future 
business after the war. Across the way, at No. 
26, i s th e 
modest 
home of The 
Sta nda r d 
Oil Co., 
probably the 
greatest 
mercantile 
corporation 
in the world. 
Passing on a 
little further City Hall at Night 




Woolworth Building, 
Illuminated 





.Municipal Building 



we come to Trinity 
Church, the oldest Kpis- 
copal church in New 
York. Organized in 
1697, it received a grant 
of land from the Crown 
that makes the Trinity 
Corporation to-day a 
very wealthy body . The 
church stands in one of 
the few graveyards re- 
maining in Manhattan 
Island. This graveyard 
must not be passed by 
the visitor. It contains 
the traditions of the best 
that have made New 
York what it is. The 
right to be buried in 



Trinity churchyard exists for few to-day but the 
right is a "patent of American nobility." 

Trinity Church stands at the head of what is 
probably the Nation's best known street,- — Wall 
Street, known the world over as our financial cen- 
ter, but, curiously enough, called "Wall Street" 
from the wall that the early New York settlers built 
to keep away the Indians. The New York Stock 
Exchange, the Sub-Treasury, the banking house of 
J. P. Morgan & Co. are all clustered about the 
corners of Wall and Broad Streets, which is a 
block away. 

Resuming our Broadway ramble, we note diago- 
nally across from Trinity Church the huge Equitable 
Building, only recently erected on the site of the 
old structure, an office building that houses five 
thousand tenants and has sixty high-powered 
electric passenger elevators. 

On the next block is the much-advertised Singer 
Building and Tower; next to it the City Investing 
Building and a little further up St. Paul's Church, 
where at one time George Washington worshiped. 

This stately Colonial church, built of stone, 
stands in the 
midst of its 
own grave- 
yard, beautiful 
in the spring 
with its flower- 
ing shrubs. 
Here 1 i e the 
remains of 
Thomas Addis 
Emmet and of 
many other 
notable people. Battleship, Union Square 





Flatiron Biiikliiit 



On the light, we now 
see the U.S. Post Office 
Building and on the left 
the famous Woolworth 
Building, unquestiona- 
bly the most ornate 
office building in exist- 
ence. It is fifty-seven 
stories and 792 feet high . 
Its observation gallery 
is open to visitors and 
from there wonderful 
views may be had of 
the city and harbor. An 
admission of fifty cents 
is charged. 

The City Hall and 
Municipal Park is the 
next point of interest 
and over the City Hall 
towers the Municipal 
Building, aptly called "The City Gate," forming, 
as it does, the entrance to Brooklyn and its 
adjacent territory. 

From City Hall to Union Square, we pass 
through the district devoted to wholesale dry goods. 
En route, at Ninth 
and Tenth Streets, 
is Wanamaker's de- 
partmental store, 
founded by A. T. Stew- 
art, and a block away 
Grace Church. At 
Union Square, four 
blocks further on, may 
be seen the statues of 
Lincoln , LaFayette 
and a fine equestrian 
statue of Washington. 
There is also here now, 
temporarily, a remark- 
able recruiting station, 
in the form of a full, life-sized battleship, covering 
a large area of the Park. 

At 23rd Street, Broadway, in its diagonal 
course, crosses Fifth Avenue and made possible 
the Flatiron Building, so called from its peculiar 
shape. Across from it is the Fifth Avenue Building, 
on the site of the old Fifth Avenue Hotel, which 
for many years was the acme of the City's 
hotel life. 

At 34th Street are the well-known retail 
mercantile establishments of B. H. Macy & Co., 
Gimbel Bros., Saks & Co., Rogers, Peet Co., and 
facing the Square is the building of the N. Y. 




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Herald, with 
its iron fig- 
ures that 
strike the 
hours with 
their me- 
chanical 
arms. 

Here be- 
gins the part 
of Broad- 
way that is 
called, fa- 

miharly, "The Great White Way," from its 
extravagant use of electric lights in advertisements 
and decoration. Here, too, are the best-known 




"Little Church Around the Corner" 




University Library- 
theatres and the opera house and some of the 
gayer of the City's restaurants, such as Rector's, 
the Claridge, Shanley's, 
Churchill's and the 
Palais Royal. At any 
of these last-mentioned 
restaurants, one is sure to 
find an excellent cabaret. 
At 59th Street, we 
merge into Columbus 
Circle, with the Colum- 
bus Monument and 
the Maine Memorial at 
the west side entrance 
to Central Park. At 
this point, Broadway 
becomes interesting 
from its extravagant 
display of motor cars, 
whose showrooms fill the 
street for blocks. st Patriclc's Cathedral 




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Plaza Square 



Fifth Avenue from tlie Top of a Motor Bus 

But a few years back, Fifth Avenue, from Wash- 
ington Square to 59th Street, was known as the 

most exclu- 
sive residen- 
tial district 
of New York 
City. There 
were the 
homes of the 
aristocratic 
and wealthy 
class and the 
houses of the 
most promi- 
nent among 
them were 
landmarks 

familiar to all. To-day, it is all changed. Lower 
Fifth Avenue, below 23rd Street, is given over, in 
large part, to loft buildings and at noonday the 
streets are filled 
with piece-work- 
ers whose home 
used to be on 
Third Avenue, 
or the Bowery. 
North of 23rd 
Street, the re- 
lentless march 
of business has 
crowded out all 
the old Knick- 
erbocker resi- 
dences, and, ex- 
cept for an oc- 
casional home or palace left there from the last 
generation, Fifth Avenue is peopled with smart 
shops and large departmental stores whose names 
were historic in the lower part of 
the town fifty years ago. 

To review this great thorough- 
fare in its general aspects, let us 
make our starting-point at Wash- 
ington Square, about which, and 
particularly on the north side of 
which are the old homes of some 
of New York's most aristocratic 
and wealthy families. A most 
popular and thoroughly satisfy- 
ing way is to view Fifth Avenue 
from the top of a motor bus. 
A motor car may be hired at 
The Obelisk ^ moderate cost, but from the 
Central Park sight-seeing point of view, there 




Vanderbilt House, 
58th St. and 5th Ave. 



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Trinity Church 



is nothing better than the top of 
a motor bus. Washington Arch, 
at the beginning of Fifth Avenue 
and spanning it, was erected in 
1890, by popular subscription, in 
commemoration of the inaugura- 
tion of Gen. George Washington. 
It was designed by the late Stan- 
ford White. It is of white marble 
and, as we are all Americans, 
allow us to say that it cost 
$128,000. As we go up Fifth 
Avenue, on the right, at Eighth 
Street, is the Brevoort House, a 
hotel linked with the past memo- 
ries of New York and patronized 
in the past and in the present 
largely by foreigners. We have spoken of the 
Flatiron Building, at 23rd Street, but we cannot 
^ _._ cross 26th Street without think- 

ing of Delmonico's, of the late 
'70's, and later of the famous 
dinners of the Cafe Martin. As 
far as 59th Street, scores of 
retail shops and departmental 
stores stand unequaled in the 
world and vie with their cousins 
of Piccadilly and Bue de la Paix. 
As we approach 34th and 35th 
Streets, we are in the neighbor- 
hood of such well-known com- 
mercial institutions as B. Altman 
& Co., Gorham Co., Best & Co. 
(The Lilliputian Bazaar), C. G. 
Gunther's Sons, Tiffany & Co., 
and in turn. Lord & Taylor, 
Bonwit, Teller & Co., Franklin Simon & Co., 
Arnold, Constable & Co., Van- 
tine's and others that one can 
easily identify by their signs. 

At 40th and 42nd Streets, one 
passes theN. Y. Public Library. 
Sherry's is at 44th Street and 
Fifth Avenue and Delmonico's 
is diagonally across the way. 

These famous restaurants, 
with such others as the Bitz- 
Carlton, the Vanderbilt, the 
Waldorf, the Plaza and the St. 
Begis, are the best. 

They are expensive but west 
from Fifth Avenue, between 
Sixth Avenue and Broadway, 
there are innumerable little table The Singer Building 




Metropolitan Tower 




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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 



d'hote restau- 
rants, either 
French or Ital- 
ian, that give 
to any one the 
opportunity of 
having a good 
meal a t very 
little cost. We 
might mention 
such places as 
luigenie's, i n 
48th Street; 

Giohto's, in 49th Street; Peck & Zucca's, in the 

immediate vicinity. — all excellent and very 

reasonable. 

As we reach 59th Street, the broad square is 

flanked by the Piaza Hotel on one side ard the 

Savoy and Netherland Hotels on the other. 

Here comes the entrance to the Park and Fifth 

Avenue adjoining the Park, from here to 110th 

Street is lined 

entirely by 

the residences of 

the wealthy 

class. 

We must not 

leave our Fifth 

Avenue without 

saying a word 

for Central Park, 

designed by 

Frederick L. Olmsted in 1858, an oasis of 843 acres 

created from the rocky ledge of Manhattan Island. 




The New York Public Library 



Churches on Fifth Avenue 

In our cursory view of Fifth Avenue from the top 
of a motor bus we have not mentioned the churches 
that we passed, in which 
all visitors to New York 
will be interested and which 
deserve a little paragraph 
by themselves. Taking 
them in their geographical 
order, at 10th Street, we 
^l^m pass the Episcopal Church 

of the Ascension, a church 
full of the memories of old 
New York and decorated 
with wonderful stained glass 
windows by the late John 
La Farge. At 12th Street, 
we pass the Old First Presby- 
terianChurch;at29thStreet, 
Grace Church the Marble Collegiate 




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Church, the Reformed Church in America; at 
37th Street, the Brick Presbyterian Church, and 
at 43rd Street, the Jewish Temple Emanu-El, that 
has one of the wealthiest congregations in New 
York. A little further on, at 15th Street, is the 
Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest, and on 
the northwest corner of 48th Street is the Colle- 
giate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas. St. Pat- 
rick's Cathedral stands on the block between 
50th and 51st Streets and deserves particular 
mention as one of our best pieces of ecclesi- 
astical architecture. It is the head of the Roman 
Catholic Church in New York. At 53rd Street, 
we pass St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, with its 
ultra-fashionable congregation. A beautiful chapel 
and altar have lately been given to this Church 
in memory of the late Mr. Twombley. Particular 
attention is called to the beautiful architecture 
of this church. At 55th Street is the Fifth Ave- 
nue Presbyterian Church, with its congregation 
of old New York Presbyterian families, long 
under the care of the famous Dr. John Hall. 



Theatres, Roof Gardens and 
Other Amusements 

Manhattan Island alone boasts of one hundred 
and fifteen theatres, with many roof gardens and 
approximately one thousand photo play houses 
with a total average weekly attendance of over a 
million and a half. In addition, there are nearly 
half a hundred theatres throughout the Boroughs 
other than Manhattan and hundreds of motion 
picture shows. Every hotel of prominence has a 
theatre booking agency, where complete informa- 
tion as to the names of theatres and what is 
being played at the time, is furnished freely to 
guests. Beside theatres, there are varied amuse- 
ments at the nearby seashore resorts, — Coney 
Island with its Luna Park, Long Beach, the Rock- 
aways and the New Jersey Coast resorts. 




Century Theatre 



Coney Island 

Coney Island 
may be reached 
by subway or by 
any number of 
sight-seeing 
cars, starting us- 
ually from Times 
Square. The 
fare is $ LOO. 



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Coney Island 



Automobiles, 
seating four to 
seven, may be 
had for the 
round trip or by 
the hour, or one 
may go by the 
boats of the Iron 
Steamboat Co., 
whose advertise- 
ments, with 
schedules, ap- 



pear in the daily papers, or by subway for ten 
cents. 

Coney Island is essentially a place of and for 
"the people." Its attractions are varied but all 
cheap in price. The bathing is good but the 
water is almost invariably crowded in the Summer 
with people "down for the day," who lounge 
about on the beach after bathing, eating their 
lunch and making the place hideous. It is a 
place very hard to describe but a visitor to New 
York should not fail to go there. The adjoining 
beaches of Manhattan and Brighton are quieter 
places where now a residential district is springing 
up. 

Prospect Park 

To one driving down to any of these three 
beaches, a great pleasure is to pass through Pros- 
pect Park, in Brooklyn, once the home of the 
Litchfield family. Its natural advantages are far 
greater than those of Central Park and its deep- 
rooted trees are alone worth a visit. In parts, it 
is as stately as the Prader in Vienna. It consists 
of 526 acres and the Parade Grounds adjoining it 
have an area of 393^ 
acres. It is a great 
breathing spot in the 
heart of Brooklyn. 



Long Beach 

Long Beach is a sea- 
shore resort an hour 
away by rail from the 
Pennsylvania Station or 
by easy motor trip in 
an hour and a half. 
Back of the strip of 
sand along the ocean the 
place is one of reclaimed 
land, filled in at large 
expense but a few years 




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ago. There are several 
good hotels and a large 
cottage colony and here 
it is always cool. Bath- 
ing and the boardwalk 
are almost as good as 
at Atlantic City and 
several high -class res- 
taurants offer one the 
best of food and music 
for dancing, in which al- 
most every one joins. 
The restaurants of the 
"Nassau, " "Castles-by- 
the-Sea" and the "Trou- 
ville" are the best to 
visit. 




Grnnt's Tomb 



Baseball Games 

The Polo Grounds, where the "Giants" hold 
their games, or the grounds of the American 
League, may be reached comfortably and in a 
short time by the subway, the "L," or touring-cars. 
Advertisements of the schedules will be found in 
the morning papers. 



Polo 

There is a great deal of polo played nowadays 
in the vicinity of New York, usually at the West- 
chester, Meadow Brook and Rockaway Hunting 
Clubs. No admission is charged as the matches 
are between gentlemen playing in their own club 
grounds but any friend who is a member can give 
a stranger a card and is very glad to do so. 

Of course, in the great international matches 
that have been played in this country the games 
were open to the public and large grandstands 
were built on the grounds of The Meadow Brook 
Club for accommodating the thousands who at- 
tended, but these matches are over and the war 

has claimed for 
} '* '^ ''^ ^ ' — -^ its victims many 

^1 / ^^^^ ^ of thefinesports- 

^ ./. * ^^I^^K /] men who were in 

the saddle for 
England and 
who finally took 
back with them 
the Hurlingham 
cup. In brighter 
times, we hope 
it will again be 

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument brought here. 




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Racing 

These are war times and the old days of racing 
do not exist but there is very good racing in the 
immediate vicinity of New York, — this year from 
the 16th of May up until the 31st of July. The 
difficulty of transporting the horses during these 
war times is a problem that has had to be over- 
come this season largely by the use of motor vans. 
In addition, there are in training this year in the 
immediate vicinity of New York nearly 1,000 
horses. 

This will insure good sport and the knowing ones 
look forward to this coming season as a very promis- 
ing one. 

The race meetings sanctioned by the Jockey 
Clubs, with their dates, are as follows: 

Metropolitan Jockey Club, Jamaica, L. I. 

Thursday, May 16, to Saturday, May 25, inclusive. 

Westchester Racing Association, Belmont Park, Queens, L. I . 
Monday, May 27, to Saturday, June 15, inclusive. 

Metropolitan Jockey Club, Jamaica, L. I. 

Monday, June 17, to Saturday, June 22, inclusive. 

Queens County Jockey Club, Aqueduct, L. I. 

Monday, June 21, to Friday, July 12, inclusive. 

Empire City Racing Association, Yonkers, N. Y. 

Saturday, July 13, to Wednesday, July 31, inclusive. 

The first four of these places can be reached by 
rail from the Pennsylvania Station within an hour 
or very easily by motor or taxicab, and the last 
from the Grand Central Station in half an hour. 
Both stations are within six minutes' walk from 
the Vanderbilt Hotel. 

After the 31st of July, the racing shifts to Sara- 
toga but returns to New York in September, when 
the Westchester Racing Association has a twelve 
days' meeting at Belmont Park. 

Aside from these official race meetings, very 
interesting amateur meets are held at the Piping 
Rock Club, the Meadow Brook Club, the Rocka- 
way Hunting Club and at Mr. Grace's place, at 
Great Neck. These have been omitted during 
war times. It is expected, however, that the 
United Hunts and Steeplechase Association will 
hold their regular meeting in October at the 
Belmont Park Terminal. These races are always 
interesting and usually draw a large crowd of 
sportsmen and sportswomen who live in the 
neighborhood on Long Island. The meeting can 
be reached by rail from the Pennsylvania Station 
or by motor easily within an hour. 




Casino in Central Park 



Golf 

In our de- 
scription of 
New York as 
a Summer re- 
sort, we spoke 
of the Queens- 
boro' Club 
links, within a 
short motor 
distance, where 
the privileges 
are extended to the guests of the Vanderbilt Hotel, 
but there are innumerable other golf clubs in and 
about New York where any member is glad to offer 
a card to friends and where visitors from out of 
town are very glad to go. All of the Country 
Clubs, such as the Westchester Country Club, the 
Meadow Brook and Rockaway Hunting Clubs and 
the Piping Rock and Sleeping Hollow Country 
Clubs have the best kind of golf links but the 
Garden City Golf Club exists for golf alone, also 
the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, near Southampton, 
the National Golf Links of America, at Southamp- 
ton itself, the St. Andrews Golf Club, at Mount 
Hope, and the Lido Club, at Long Beach, which 
comes nearest to the Scotch dunes and where they 
have even cultivated Scotch grass on the links. 

In addition to the above, if one has the oppor- 
tunity, one should not fail to visit the following 
other golf clubs: Apawamis Club, Rye, N. Y.; 
Baltusrol Club, Baltusrol, N. J.; Cherry Valley 
Club, Garden City, L. I.; Huntington Golf & 
Marine Club, Huntington, N. Y.; Hollywood 
Club, Deal, N. J.; Morris County Club, Convent, 
N. J.; Nassau Country Club, Glen Cove, L. I.; 
North Shore Country Club, Glen Head, L. I.; 
Oakland Club, Bayside, L, I.; Scarsdale Golf & 
Country Club, Hartsdale, N. Y. 

Right at hand, in Van Cortlandt Park, easily 
reached by the 6th Ave. or 8th Ave. "L" to 155th 
Street, by subway or by "taxi," is the Public 
Golf Course, which is open to all. On Sundays, 
it is almost too crowded but for visitors who have 
leisure it is a delightful place to go during the 
week. 

TENNIS 

Any number of visitors, while in New York, like 
to play tennis and to know where they can do so. 

The West Side Tennis Club is the official 
headquarters of the IL S. National Lawn Tennis 
Association. Only members are admitted, but 
they can always introduce guests. The courts are 



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perfect. There 
the National 
and Internation- 
al matches are 
played. The 
Club is at Forest 
Hills, 15 minutes 

from New York 

Botanical Gardens by the Pennsyl- 

vania Railway. 
The tennis courts in Central Park are open to 
all and are most enjoyable all week day mornings 
except Saturday mornings, when they are over- 
crowded. Any one can apply to the Park Com- 
missioner, Municipal Building, who issues a permit. 
After getting a permit one is assigned to courts 
for half an hour according to vacancies from 
8 A. M. to 7 P. M. 

The courts at Van Cortlandt Park are also free 
to all. Application has to be made to Commis- 
sioner Hennessey, Zabriski Mansion, Tel. 2610. 
The management of the Vanderbilt Hotel will 
have all these details arranged for guests on 
application at the office. 

Smart Shops 

New York can be justly proud of its shops and 
departmental stores. There is no place in the 
world, even in Paris, where one can find places 
superior, of their kind, to Altman's, McCreery's. 
Lord & Taylor's and Arnold Constable & Co., but 
of late years New York has developed some smart 
shops of a very high class that cannot be excelled 
anywhere. It is interesting for a stranger to go 
to see these places and we might mention the 
following: 

Henri Bendel, Inc., 10 West 57th St.; very smart hats of all 

kinds, gowns, furs, etc. 
Hickson, Inc., 661 Fifth Ave.; smartest tailor in America. 

Wonderful evening gowns. 
J. M. Gidding & Co., 564 Fifth Ave.; everything that woman 

wears and the best. 
L. P. Hollander «& Co., 550 Fifth Ave.; women's and children's 

clothes of the highest class. 
Mme. L. Thurn, 15 East 52nd St.; beautiful gowns; a most 

exclusive patronage, and Miss Julia Carroll, 9 West 50th 

St., of the same high class. 
Maison Blanc , 510 Fifth Ave .; fine linens and lingerie , trousseaux 

and layettes. The best that New York has to offer. 
C. G. Gunther's Sons, 391 Fifth Ave.; H. Jaeckel & Sons, 

16 West 32nd St., and Revillon Freres, 670 Fifth Ave., are 

high-class, reliable furriers. 
Cammeyer & Co., 381 Fifth Ave., and J. & J. Slater, 415 

Fifth Ave., are the best for ladies' slippers and shoes. 
Dreicer & Co., Inc., at Fifth Ave. and 46th St., and Theodore 

B. Starr, at Fifth Ave. and 47th St., are the best for 

diamonds and jewelry of the highest class. 



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Famous Restaurants in and about 
"The Great White Way" 

Restaurants that almost every one has heard of 
are located in and about Times Square, within a 
radius of a few blocks. Others of equal prominence 
are scattered over the city. The Waldorf and 
the Vanderbilt are on 34th Street. The Ritz- 
Carlton, Sherry's and Delmonico's are on Madison 
and Fifth Avenues and just above 42nd St. Shan- 
ley's, Rector's, the Claridge, Churchill's and 
others are in or near Times Square. Reisen- 
weber's is at 58th Street and Eighth Avenue. 
Healy's is on Columbus Avenue at 66th Street. 
All of the latter have high-class cabarets and other 
forms of entertainment in progress during the 
dinner hours and after-theatre suppers. 

In other parts of the city, for novelty, one may, 
if one pleases, drop in for a little dinner at such 
well-known places as "Fraunces' Tavern," on 
lower Rroad St.; "Little Hungary," on Houston 
St. East, or, better still, at Romano & Taormina's 
Italian restaurant, at 142 West Houston St. Serv- 
ice there is a la carte and it is, without doubt, 
the best Italian restaurant in the city. There is 
also PoUyanna's, at 111 West 47th Street, which 
is the best sort of an Italian table d'hote and 
cheap. Only those are admitted who are known 
but a card of introduction from the Vanderbilt will 
insure one of the best treatment by "Madame." 

Although the admitted standard of all cookery 
is French, it can be truthfully said that the Cafe 
Lafayette — for many years the famous Cafe 
Martin — at 8th St. and University Place, is the 
best "French" restaurant in New York. It is 
hard at all times to get a table. But to dine there 
is to dine in a French "atmosphere" and there is 
nothing nicer to do than to go there on Sunday 
for "dejeuner" about one o'clock. 

Out-of-Door Restaurants 

"Claremont," at the head of Riverside Drive, 
commands a 
fine outlook 
up and down 
the Hudson 
River and has 
an out-of- 
door restau- 
rant where it 
is delightful 
to dine on 
warm Sum- 
m e r eve- 
nings. They The River of Bridges, East River 




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Museum of Natural History 

justly pride themselves on the high quality of 
their food, particularly of their fish, which is 
kept alive in large tanks and cooked on order. 

Ben Riley's "Arrowhead Inn," at 177th Street, 
famous for its steaks, its frog legs and its cock- 
tails, and the "Abbey Inn," at 210th Street, over- 
looking the Hudson and the lights of the Greater 
City, justly famous for its broiled chickens, salads 
and red wines, are both practically open-air 
restaurants in the Summer time and make any 
evening delightful. 

When we are in Coney Island, we must not fail 
to visit Tappen's Hotel, at Sheepshead Bay. The 
"shore dinner" there, at a moderate cost, is the 
best of its kind in or near New York and the 
colored singers and musicians entertain one with 
all the popular songs of the day and contribute to a 
delightful evening before motoring back to town. 

"The Casino," in Central Park, is also an open- 
air restaurant of a bygone generation, where it 
is delightful to stop while driving or to dine on a 
hot Summer evening. 

Chop Houses 

The old English chop houses have practically 
disappeared from New York. "Old Tom's," on 
Thames St., "Sutherland's," on Liberty St., 
"Pontin's," on Franklin St., are only memories of 
the past and their whole-hearted proprietors are 
under the sod, but Rolfe's Chop House, on John 
St., No. 42, has no superior in its English chops, 
venison and sea food and is one of the few places in 
New York where one can have stout from the 
wood. Downstairs, the walls are covered with 
the famous pictures by John Leach and women are 
frequently welcome visitors on the upper floor. 



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Japanese Garden, Ritz-Carlton 

Of the same general sort is Engel's, on West 
36th Street, next Sixth Avenue, bequeathed by the 
former proprietor and maintained to-day by "the 
old waiters." 

Keene's, across the way, is famous for its" Chesh- 
ire Cheese Pudding." It is a fine place to go for 
lunch, but always crowded. 

Brown's Chop House, on Broadway, between 
40th and 41st Streets, deserves particular men- 
tion for its splendid food and its wonderful collec- 
tion of old theatrical pictures and portraits. In 
the evening, one can see there, mixed in with its 
Broadway clientele, fashionable visitors from the 
Opera House across the street. 

"Jack's," on Sixth Avenue and 43rd Street, is a 
restaurant in the nature of a chop house, famous 
for its sea food and the kaleidoscopic nature of its 
patrons from daylight to daylight. "Mr, Jack," 
the proprietor, is a handsome picture of dignity and 
urbanity. 

Motor Trips 

It is expensive but one of the great pleasures of the 
Summer residents of New York is to hire — or, bet- 
ter still , to borrow a motor and take a trip of an hour 
or two on Long Island, or Westchester County 
or New Jersey. There are in- 
numerable restaurants where 
the food is of the highest class. 
For the convenience of friends 
who are not entirely familiar 
with New York and its environs, 
we might mention, on Long 
Island, the "Beaux Sejour," at 
Hicksville; the "Holly Arms," 
at Woodmere; "Henri's," at 
Ly nbrook ; the "Petit Trianon ," 
at the end of the Motor Park- 
way; "Ward's Best Inn," at 
Centerport Harbor, or the 
"Blossom Heath Inn," on the Old Stevens House 




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Hippodrome 



Merrick Road, 
at Lynbrook. 
Up in West- 
chester County, 
we have "Hun- 
ter Island Inn," 
at Pelham Bay 
Park, "Longue 
Vue," at Hast- 
ings-on-the- 
Hudson,keptby 
the same people 
whohave"Clare- 



mont," and nearby the "Park Hill Inn," at Yon- 
kers, with the famous "Briarcliff Hotel" farther up, 
at Scarboro, and in Connecticut, near Greenwich, 
the Pickwick Inn. 

Beyond the map that is appended, it does 
not seem feasible to give here the different 
maps for motorists on entering or leaving 
New York but detailed information and perfect 
maps are issued by The American Automobile 
Association, 501 Fifth Avenue, and attention is 
called to their "Westchester County Local and 
Through Roads," price 50c; "Long Island, Map of 
All Roads Suitable for Motoring," price 25c; 
"Special Hudson River District, Map of All Main 
Roads and Principal Options," price 50c; also 
"Strip Map New York to Philadelphia," price 10c; 
"Strip Map, New York to New London," price 
10c. These maps are official and infallible. 

They can be obtained at the Vanderbilt Hotel. 

Right at home is a delightful short motor trip, 
up through the Grand Concourse and Van Cort- 
landt Park, which can be made within two hours. 



Turkish Baths and Hair-Dressing 
Establishments 

After one has come back from any of the differ- 
ent motor trips, it is nice to know where one can 
find a good Turkish bath, for men or for women, 
or a hair-dress- 
ing establish- 
ment where one 
can get fresh- 
ened up for din- 
ner. 

Probably the 
best Turkish 
bath, for men 
or for women, 
is the one in the 
Biltmore Hotel. 
Women have the winter Garden 




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morning 
hours and 
men the 
afternoon 
and early 
evenin g. 
The price 
is $1.50. 
An old- 
fashioned 
but small 




Brooklyn Bridge 



and exclusive Turkish bath is Miller's, at No. 113^ 
East 29th Street. There are separate baths for 
women at all hours and separate baths for men. 
The price is $2.00. For men alone, the baths in 
the Produce Exchange are very nice and there they 
have a salt water plunge that makes the bathing 
very refreshing, particularly in the summer. The 
price is only $1.00 and the baths cannot be too 
highly recommended. 

For ladies who wish to have their hair dressed, 
attention is called to the hair-dressing rooms in 
the Vanderbilt Hotel and to Cluzelle Bros., at 12 
West 37th Street, Pierre's, at 5 East 53rd St., also 
to Simonson's, at 506 Fifth Avenue, and to Ben- 
jamin Alexander's, 8 East 47th Street, of the same 
high class. 

Garages 

To strangers who are motoring to town, it is 
often very important to know of a good and re- 
liable garage and the following can be highly 
recommended: Hotel Auto Rental Service Garage, 
411 West 55th Street, the Cadillac Motor Car Co., 
8 West 62nd Street, the Gotham Garage Co., 
122 West 46th Street; the Murray Hill Garage, 
27 East 40th Street; the Ritz-Carlton Garage, 
141 West 51st Street, and the Norman Garage, 
238 West 54th Street. 

There is to be erected, on the north side of 44th 
Street, between. First and Second Avenues, a 
very up-to-date garage, which will accommodate 
approximately six hundred cars. It is being built 

with ramps , or 
^.fefv-^^i^SXiJLi inclined planes, 

on which the 
cars are taken 
up instead of by 
elevators or lifts. 
This garage will 
be the newest 
thing of its kind 
andwillbe ready 
in the early 
Polo Grounds winter of 1918. 




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New York Zoological Park 



Bronx Park 
On the way 
back from West- 
chester County, 
if one is motor- 
ing, it is delight- 
ful to stop a t 
Bronx Park and 
\ isit the Zoo- 
logical Park and 
Botanical Gar- 
dens there. The 
Zoological Park 
is in charge of the New York Zoological Society and 
has supposedly the largest zoological collection in 
the world, containing over 5,000 living animals, 
representing over 1,200 species. Owing to the 
size of the buildings, the animal specimens are 
shown at great advantage, although the distances 
are big. 

The Botanical Gardens occupy the northwest 
section of the Park and contain large greenhouses, 
with specimens of all of the North-American vege- 
table family and many tropical species. Facing 
the palm houses of the Botanical Gardens is a 
museum which contains an extensive collection. 

The Motor Parkway 

The Motor Parkway, built and maintained for 
motor cars driven at high speed, begins at the end 
of Hillside Avenue, Long Island, and extends for 
forty-five miles to Lake Ronkonkoma. It is en- 
closed on either side and $L00 is charged for ad- 
mission, but for any one who wishes to drive at high 
speed it is an indispensable and safe luxury. Mr. 
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., himself a skilful and daring 
motorist, was financially responsible for the crea- 
tion of the Motor Parkway. 

Our miniature sight-seeing trip is almost over and 
we have not spoken of the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art and the Museum of Natural History. 

The Museums 

The Museum of Art is at Fifth Avenue and 83rd 
Street. It is a 
very remarkable 
museum in the 
fact that it is a 
storehouse for 
all forms of art. 
It has many 
wonderful paint- 
ings, mingled in K kiM mHil'llli 
with some sad Columbus Circle 



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Herald Square 



reminders of a 
former genera- 
tion, and its col- 
lection of tapes- 
tries, its collec- 
tion of casts, its 
Egyptian relics 
must all be seen 
by the visitor in 
town. Admis- 
sion is free ex- 
cept on Mondays and Fridays when there is a 
charge of twenty-five cents. 

The Museum of Natural History is on 72nd 
Street, just west of Central Park. Like the 
Museum of Art, it is an institution of large scope 
and goes into the Mexican, Aztec and Indian 
civilizations, in connection with the study of ani- 
mal life from prehistoric times. Admission is free 
excepting Mondays. 

Do not be unhappy in New York. Try some of 
the above attractions that it offers. Suit your 
tastes. You do not have to spend much money 
to enjoy it and you will know then, if you are a 
visitor, why we residents, who know this City, hate 
to leave it. 




The Mall, Central Park 



OTHER hotels under the direc- 
tion of the Vanderbilt Hotel 
Management are the Hotel Devon, 
a residential bote), at 70 West 55th 
Street, the Hill Top Inn and Res- 
taurant, at Newport, R. I., and 
the Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel, at 
San Juan, Porto Rico, which will 
open in November, 1918. 



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